The Texas Gulf Historical and Biographical Record, Volume 21, Number 1, November 1985 Page: 79
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SKETCH OF THE TEXIAN REVOLUTION (1835)
but unavoidable step, of severing their connection with the Mexican
people, and of assuming an independent attitude among the nations of the
earth. As it is too long to be inserted in this sketch, the following extract,
which of itself contains a sufficient reason for the 'hazardous step' taken,
must suffice.
The Mexican government, by its colonization laws, invited and
induced the Anglo-American population of Texas, to colonize the
wilderness, under the pledged faith of a written constitution, that
they should continue to enjoy that constitutional liberty and
republican government to which they had been habituated in the
land of their birth, the United States of America. In this expecta-
tion, they have been cruelly disappointed - as the Mexican nation
has acquiesced in the late changes made in the government by General
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna; who, having overturned the con-
stitution of this country, now offers us the cruel alternative, either
to abandon our own homes, acquired by so many privations, or
submit to the most intolerable of all tyranny, the combined despotism
of the sword and the priesthood.
Of this convention, Richard Ellis was President, and W. S. Kimball,
Secretary. When the news of the fall of San Antonio arrived at the Conven-
tion, a powerful appeal to the people of the United States was immediately
adopted and sent to New-Orleans to be published in the newspapers. A consti-
tution was formed, and the officers of government appointed as follows: -
David G. Burnet, Pres. of the Republic of Texas.
Lorenzo D. Zavalla, Vice-President.
Samuel P. Carson, Secretary of State.
Thomas I. Rush, Secretary of War.
Bailey Hardman, Secretary of the Treasury.
Robert Potter, Secretary of the Navy.
David Thomas, Attorney General.
I. R. Jones, Postmaster General.
President Burnet is a native of Newark in New-Jersey, by profession
a lawyer - a gentleman of education, accomplished manners and of the
purest integrity.
Immediately after the capture of San Antonio, Goliad was besieged by
the enemy under the command of Gen. Urrea. Colonel Fanning, contraryNov. 1985]
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